Bogle Eric-Green Fields Of France tab

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OK hopefully this should be an improvement on the other guys tabs for this song.
It saves you having to mess around playing chords with a capo on the eighth fret and means you
now play it with a capo on the third fret...which seems is much more comfortable
CAmFmD7
Well how do you do young Willie McBride,
GFmC
Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside,
AmFmD7
And rest for a while in the warm summer sun,
GFmC
I've been walking all day and I'm nearly done.
CAmFmD7
I see by your gravestone you were only 19,
GFmCG
When you joined the great fallen in 1916,
CAmD7
Well I hope you died quick and I hope you died clean,
GFmC
Or Willie McBride was it slow and obscene.
Chorus:
CG
Did they beat the drum slowly,
FmC
Did they play the fife lowly,
GFmG
Did they sound the dead march, as they lowered you down,
FmCAm
Did the band play the last post and chorus,
CFmGC
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest.
CAmFmD7
And did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind,
GFmC
In some loyal heart is your memory enshrined,
AmFmD
And though you died back in 1916,
GFmC
To that loyal heart you're forever 19.
CAmFmD7
Or are you a stranger without even a name,
GFmCG
Forever enshrined behind some old glass pane,
CAmD7
In an old photograph all torn tattered and stained,
GFmC
And faded to yellow in a brown leather frame.
Chorus
CAmFmD7
The sun's shining down on these green fields of France,
GFmC
The warm wind blows gently and the red poppies dance,
AmFmD7
The trenches have vanished long under the plow
GFmC
No gas, no barbed wire, no guns firing now.
CAmFmD7
But here in this graveyard it's still "No Man's Land",
GFmCG
The countless white crosses in mute witness stand,
CAmD7
To man's blind indifference to his fellow man,
GFmC
And a whole generation that were butchered and damned.
Chorus
CAmFmD7
And I can't help but wonder, oh Willie McBride
GFmC
Do all those who lie here know why they die,
AmFmC
Did you really believe them when they told you the cause
GFmC
Did they really believe that this war would end wars.
CAmFmD7
Well, the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame
GFmCG
The killing and dying it was all done in vain,
CAmD7
Oh Willie McBride it all happened again,
GFmC
And again, and again, and again, and again.